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And across it they looked at one another
as though stunned. Then his face paled and he stepped back, staring at
her from stern eyes.
"Phil," she faltered, bewildered by the mirage, "is it only a bad dream,
after all?" And as the false magic glowed into blinding splendour to
engulf them: "Oh, boy! boy!--is it hell or heaven where we've fallen--?"
There came a loud rapping at the door.


CHAPTER V
AFTERGLOW

"Phil," she wrote, "I am a little frightened. Do you suppose Boots
suspected who it was? I must have been perfectly mad to go to your rooms
that night; and we both were--to leave the door unlocked with the chance
of somebody walking in. But, Phil, how could I know it was the fashion
for your friends to bang like that and then come in without the excuse
of a response from you?
"I have been so worried, so anxious, hoping from day to day that you
would write to reassure me that Boots did not recognise me with my back
turned to him and my muff across my eyes.


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